Company Overview
ProjectAccept.org is the leading non-profit providing education, awareness and advocacy surrounding human herpesviruses and papillomaviruses, particularly HSV & HPV.
Vision:
Sooner or later, everyone on earth carries human herpesviruses and papillomaviruses, yet so few understand them or become aware of their own infections. We intend to change that through education, awareness and advocacy while supporting cure research and combating the stigma surrounding Herpes and HPV.
Mission:
- To act as a key resource for accurate and timely research, healthcare and support information for human hepresviruses and papillomaviruses
- To increase awareness across society about the endemic nature of human herpesviruses and papillomaviruses
- To work with Governmental and NGO, along with Academic and Professional Healthcare Associations and Societies in order to better educate, treat and support the public
- To support clinical and laboratory cure research
- To provide support to those afflicted with the complications that human herpesviruses and human papillomaviruses may cause
ProjectAccept.org is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, based in Virginia, USA.
A Few Key Facts & Statistics on HSV & HPV:
HSV:
- ~100% of the world’s population carries at least a few of the 9 human herpesviruses
- HSV and other herpesviruses are endemic to humans. Most humans acquire them at some point and retain them for life
- 75% or more are currently infected by the Herpes Simplex Virus – Type 1, 2 or both – somewhere on their body
- Fewer than 20% of Herpes Simplex Virus(HSV) carriers experience noticeable symptoms
- ~80% rarely discover that they’ve acquired HSV: it isn’t routinely tested for, even on STD panels
- Every carrier is contagious for life, to varying degrees at various times
- Experts estimate that 70% or more of Herpes Simplex transmissions occur asymptomatically
- HSV-1 (what you know as the cold sore virus) is now the leading cause of genital herpes
- Most people don’t even notice that they’ve acquired HSV
There is no cure for herpesviruses.
HPV:
- Around 200 types of HPV have been isolated to date
- Around 40 are known to transmit sexually
- Around a dozen have demonstrated the ability to cause cancer
- 75% of humans naturally clear HPV within a year of infection, with little to no medical intervention
- 90% clear it by the end of the 2nd year
- Only in ~10% does HPV become persistent and potentially harmful – cervical cancer, throat cancer, etc
- HPV remains contagious until it has cleared
- Most people don’t even notice that they’ve acquired HPV
Acquiring human herpesviruses and human papillomaviruseses – including HPV and HSV – is a perfectly normal part of human life: everyone does so. People just don’t KNOW that. That ignorance causes pain… and that part actually CAN be cured.
We invite you to come and learn more and we welcome any inquires for strategic partnership, grant and program underwriting opportunities.
ProjectAccept.org is a 100% volunteer organization
We rely upon your donations!
